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The bigger piracy problem at the time was unauthorized third party flash cartridges, not emulators. I'm wondering which of these measures, if any, where targete
by spilk 12y ago
The bigger piracy problem at the time was unauthorized third party flash cartridges, not emulators. I'm wondering which of these measures, if any, where targeted at making them more difficult to run from these cartridges. I know I had one and these games would not run unmodified on it.
- poizan42 12y agoSeems likely that the the save type masquerading would prevent running the game from generic mass produced cartridges which probably contains both SRAM and EEPROM.
- sanqui 12y agoDuring the time the Classic NES series was being produced, a public domain NES emulator for the GBA already existed[1], and has even been used in commercial releases[2]. There would have been no reason to go for the Classic NES games over the existing emulator. [1] http://nes.pocketheaven.com/ http://nes.pocketheaven.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketNES#Commercial_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketNES#Commercial_use
- bananaboy 12y agoYeah but not everyone would be able to/interested in using a flash cart+pocket NES. Nintendo wanted a piece of the action, and probably a lot of people would be happy to buy a Nintendo approved version of those games.
- sanqui 12y agoYeah, I'm just saying that the measures against piracy were pointless, since pirates already had an emulator they could use.